Celebration
Steve Musco
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St. Lawrence Saints SLU 14-11-6, 10-6-3 ECAC
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Winner Yale Bulldogs YALE 21-5-1, 15-4-1 ECAC
St. Lawrence Saints SLU
14-11-6, 10-6-3 ECAC
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Final
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Yale Bulldogs YALE
21-5-1, 15-4-1 ECAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
St. Lawrence Saints SLU 0 1 0 1
Yale Bulldogs YALE 1 1 1 3

Game Recap: Women's Ice Hockey | | Steve Conn

No. 7 Bulldogs Celebrate Senior Day with 3-1 Win over SLU

Five seniors contribute to win that clinches home ice for ECACs

NEW HAVEN, Conn.  – The No. 7 Yale Women's Ice Hockey Team celebrated Senior Day by beating St. Lawrence 3-1 in the last regular-season game at the Whale and clinching home ice for the ECAC Hockey Tournament.

Senior captain Greta Skarzynski clinched the game with an empty-net goal, and classmate Gianna Meloni stopped 21 of 22 shots to earn the win in net for the Elis, who are now in first place with a 3.5-point lead over second-place Harvard with one week remaining in the regular season.

Junior forwards Claire Dalton and Charlotte Welch got things started for the Bulldogs in the first period when they combined on a pretty scoring play at 13:48. Welch won the face outside the SLU blueline and the two traded passes until Dalton finished a one-timer in the slot for her 10th of the year.

After the Saints tied the game early in the second, junior Rebecca Vanstone sent a backhander from the high slot past the stick of Saints' goalie Lucy Morgan. Vanstone's 12th of the year gave the home team a 2-1 lead and was the eventual winner.

Yale, with school-records for overall wins, with 21, and conference victories (15), earned its first home post-season games since 2005, the only time the Elis have held playoff contests at Ingalls Rink. Those 2022 ECAC playoff games take place Feb. 25-27, a best-of-three series.

The Bulldogs, supported today by large crowd that included many members of the Yale Football Team, secured this opportunity by sweeping the North Country Teams this weekend and improving their win streak to six games while moving up to No. 5 in the Pairwise.

It was the perfect way to honor the Class of 2022, which also includes Maya Kerfoot, Rebecca Foggia and Tess Dettling, each of whom are enjoying great seasons.

"This was such an exciting game and very fitting that it went down to the wire on senior day," said Mark Bolding, Yale's Susan Cavanagh Head Coach. "We had great energy and again figured out how to finish out a tight game when it really mattered. I am very happy for our five awesome seniors as they keep setting team records and now clinch home ice for playoffs."
 
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